Reply to "Porsche 928 Coyote Swap"

I originally had a Porscher (club magazine for this area) writer contact me about doing an article on the "project" I was doing. I had not yet disclosed details on the project. I told him that I didn't think his readership would be too enthusiastic about this one. His comment was "As long as you haven't swapped some Chevy motor in there you are probably ok". I said "Well, its not a chevy motor....." . After I told him what was going on he said he would speak with the editor. I was later politely told that the project would not fit with the readership of the magazine however if I wanted to do some general technical articles for them that would be fine. I was not one bit surprised.

The original engine was wet sump as well and also a DOHC design. On some of the Porsche forums it has actually been received warmly as that engine is similar to what porsche likely would have used as a next generation style vs the LS which is a very common swap in these. The car weighs in at just shy of 3400 lbs which is pretty much what a stock one would weigh.

This engine is the Aluminator SC version so comes with forged low compression internals as well as billet oil pump gears. We adapted it to a Corvette Z06 6 speed transaxle as well. It drives great. There is a lot of money sunk into it which arguably will never be returned but the owner has a one of a kind 928 that will outperform the original in every conceivable way. Oh, and for fun sake the name of the project was "Coyote Ugly".